Every Me Loves Every You.

[redbrunja]

"The point of fics set in alternate universes are to show that no matter what setting or circumstance, these two people will always find each other. I will find you. Every me loves every you."

I came across this great quote on tumblr and it reminded me of that fantastic scene between Derek and Jesse in TSCC, where they realize that they came from different futures where they were both in a relationship with slightly different versions of the other person, where Derek says basically the above. To me, I felt like it was clear he wasn't telling the literal truth, but what he wanted to be true (that in all possible futures, they were with each other) which is just so fucking romantic.

And thinking about AUs reminded me of a conversation I had with backtothesea where I was talking about how the thing that really frustrated me with AUs, is when people didn't bother to translate pivotal characterization details into the new universe and how often it would be so. easy. My example was Artemis Crock, and how if her father wasn't a bad dude in whatever new universe we're in, it pings me the wrong way. Same with Natasha Romanoff. A childhood trained/used as a weapon is a requirement, imho.

How picky I am about this stuff is why I'm not a big AU person, really.

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[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Then you have people who just write Peeta as an asshole juvenile delinquent sent to Amish country, and Katniss as "Amish", and it's like...not only are they extremely OOC and the depiction of Amish culture is ridiculous, none of the base char influences are there at all.

Everything about this hurts my soul.

[deathmallow.livejournal.com]

And yet this is considered one of the "best" and "classic" THG fics. Barf.